Ornamenting window-shades



(No Model.)

E. P. BENJAMIN.

ORNAMENTING WINDOW SHADES.

No. 366,449. Patented July 12, 1887.

WITNESSQS ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE@` EDW'IN P. BENJAMIN, OF MINETTO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE MINETTO SHADE CLOTH COMPANY, OF OSVEGO, NEW YORK.

QRNAMENTING WINDOW-SHA'DES.

SPECPICATIN forming part or' Letters Patent N0. 366,449, dated July l2, 1887.

Application Bled September 9, 1886. Serial No. 213,148.

T all whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, EDWIN P. BENJAMIN, of Minette, in the county of Oswego and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamenting Window-Shades, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of shades known as hollands and opaques,77 which have heretofore been ornamented ordinarily by a design printed upon one side only, though both sides have been ornamented by the saine design in register, so that but one design would appear, no matter from which side the shade was viewed.

`My invention consists in ornaxnenting the opposite sides of the translucent fabric with designs out of register with each other.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-d Figure l is a view from the inside of the room, showing the shade ornamented in accordance with my invention as it appears in daylight. Fig. 2 is a view from the outside of the room, showing the shade as it appears during the day. Fig. 3 is a View from the outside ofthe room, showing the shade as it would appear at night when the room was supplied with light. Fig. 4t is a view showing the shade 3o from the inside ofthe room, it being dark with ont and light within the room.

Arepresents the shade, which is ornamented with the design C on its inner side, and with the design or pattern B on its outer face. The

shade is made of translucent fabric, so that at certain times the inner design only will be visible, at other times only the outer design, and then again both designs will show, as will be readily understood from the accompanying 4o drawings.

Vhen it is light wit-hin and dark without the room, the design C only will be visible from the inside of the room, while from the outside both designs will show; and the reverse is true 4 5 when it is dark within and light Without the room-that is to say, the two designs will be (No model.)

Visible from the inside and only the outer design from the outside.

The designs may be varied to suit various tastes, though in every instance the designs 5o on the opposite faces of the shade must be out of register, in order that the desired result may be produced, though both sides might have the same design. The best effect, however, is produced by having different designs on the opposite faces.

Iam aware that a window-shade has been formed of a starched fabric having one side ornaniented with elastic waterproofsizing and dock or metallic powder, the otherside of the 6o fabric being plain or free from discoloration; also, that a translucent window-shade has been provided on its opposite faces with the same designs in register one with the other; also, that a window-shade has been provided with translucent ornaniented paper upon both sides, the designs on said papers registering; also, that a window-shade has been formed ofopaqne material having a translucent portion Iliade by inserting an ornamented piece, and I do 7o not claim the same as of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The improvement in the art of ornainenting window-shade fabric, which consists in applying patterns or designs tothe opposite sides ofthe fabric out of register with each ot-her, substantially as set forth. c

2. The shade herein described, formed of 8o translucent fabric having designs on its opposite faces, the said designs being out of register, substantially as set forth.

3. The shade herein shown and described, formed of translucent fabric having different S5 designs on its opposite faces, the said different designs being out of register, substantially as set forth.

EDWIN l. BENJAMIN. Vitnesses: i

C. Snnewrcn,

J. L. MCAULTFFE. 

